ECC Memory for Home ESXi hosts?

[nitrobass24]

Any reason for me to spend on ECC Memory for my home lab virtualization hosts?

 

[Rison]

Depends on how much memory the system is using. Any servers past 16G I usually move towards ECC, but for home use it's up to the user how critical the systems are.

 

[ChristianVirtual]

I do have ECC for the ESXi box (Xeon CPU) hosting my FreeBSD ZFS server; as ZFS heavy depend on memory I don't want to risk integrity of my data. The additional safety of ECC is for this purpose.
For my second ESXi-sandbox (i7 CPU) I use regular non-ECC; nothing "mission critical" on it.

 

[PigLover]

I do have ECC for the ESXi box (Xeon CPU) hosting my FreeBSD ZFS server; as ZFS heavy depend on memory I don't want to risk integrity of my data. The additional safety of ECC is for this purpose.
For my second ESXi-sandbox (i7 CPU) I use regular non-ECC; nothing "mission critical" on it.

+1 for this. Its not really ESXi that creates the need for ECC, but the VM clients might. If you have an application where ECC is recommended/important in your client set (like a ZFS based file server) then ECC is still recommended when that client is virtualized. If none of your clients have an ECC requirement then neither does your ESXi host.

 

[nitrobass24]

Yea all my data is going to hosted on a synology RAID5, so I wont have ECC there. I do have backups to AWS Glacier.